IFOCE.com reports that Tim Janus has won the Nathan’s Hartford qualifier for the third year in a row with a total of 41.5 hot dogs. Tim Brown ate 24 HDB and Russ Keeler was third with 23 HDB.

update The Star Tribune has an interview with Tim from before the qualifier.

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Badlands Booker’s myspace schedule lists him as performing at the following Nathan’s contests:

05/19/2007 12:00 PM – East Hartford Nathan’s Qualifier , East Hartford, Connecticut
05/26/2007 12:00 PM – Nathan’s Philly Qualifier TBA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Free
06/03/2007 12:00 PM – Performance At Nathan’s Shea Stadium Qualifier Shea Stadium, Queens, New York
06/22/2007 12:00 PM – Performance At Nathan’s Molly Pitcher Qualifier NJ Turnpike – Molly Pitcher Rest Area, Cranbury, New Jersey
06/23/2007 12:00 PM – Performance At Nathan’s Bay Area Qualifier TBA, San Francisco, California
06/27/2007 12:00 PM – Nathan’s Civil Service Qualifier South Street Seaport – Pier 17, New York, New York – Free
07/04/2007 11:00 PM – Nathan’s 91st. Annual Hot Dog Contest Surf & Stillwell Aves., Coney Island, New York – Free

I am not sure if Booker’s planned performance at the South Street Seaport contest means that he will not compete in that event.

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Last year, the Atlanta Nathan’s qualifier and the corndog eating contest held at the Corndogorama music festival were held the same day. After participating in both events and winning the corndog contest in 2006, Dale Boone said he would choose the corndog contest over the hot dog qualifier next year. He will have to make no such decision this year since Pine Magazine reports the festival will start July 12.

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Megamunch reports that Shoo Fly pie registration opened last night.

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TheNathansRematch.com website on the poster in Nathan’s noticed by Don “Moses” Lerman is now up. There is a contest to be a judge at the finals in Coney Island.

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From IFOCE.com

“The East Hartford contest is typically held in an open-air parking lot. For years we’ve been blessed with good weather for this event. In consideration of this Saturday’s forecast, we’ve elected to hold the contest in a building that is the former home of an Ames department store. This vacant Ames is in the same strip mall as the Nathan’s Famous in East Hartford. It is the ideal replacement venue for this qualifier.”

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(From R Suzuki) NNN’s news video page has a clip of Tomoko Miyake attempting a restaurant’s curry challenge at http://www.ntv.co.jp/news/asx_dai2/070504081_300k.asx

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The Brooklyn Papers reports that Will Millender will appear on a weight loss reality show in which he will attempt to walk from Boston to Washington, DC.

Trial, tribulations, and even a slice of celebrity are nothing new for Millender, who has battled his weight for several years, and whose image can still be found on storefront posters across Ridge for his first place showing at the Fifth Avenue pizza-eating contest last June at Rocco’s Pizzeria (Millender was cheered to victory by a huge crowd that included a once-legendary, now slimmed-down, eater, Borough President Markowitz).

He ate 10 slices in the regulation 12 minutes. The performance made him a legend.

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The archives for Time Magazine have an article with a paragraph about the 1933 corn eating contest held in Ortonville, Minnesota, where an AICE contest will take place this year:

At the Ortonville, Minn, harvest festival last year Mrs. L. W. Lindstrom munched hard for the women’s corn-eating championship, finished second to Pauline Lewis who set a women’s record of 25 ears. Ed (“Korn King”) Kottwitz won the men’s championship with a world’s record of 37 ears. Last week at the festival, with two dozen waitresses rushing supplies from steaming boilers chocked with Golden Bantam corn, Mrs. Lindstrom, 71 and every tooth her own, beat Pauline Lewis, 22, by one ear with a new women’s record of 45 ears. Ed Kottwitz kept his championship by chomping down 50 ears.

Mrs. Lindstrom’s performance is the best performance by an eater over the age of 70 I am aware of.

It is surprising that an eating contest would be held during the trough of the Great Depression.

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Crazy Legs Conti has set up a myspace page to promote the DVD release of his documentary “Zen & the Art of Competitive Eating” That film will go on sale on July 24 and is available for preorder now.

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The May edition of Hall Hunt’s top 25 IFOCE members poll is out now. The top 10 in that list:

1. Takeru Kobayashi (8) (270) [1]
2. Joey Chestnut (2) (258) [2]
3. Patrick Bertoletti (255) [3]
4. Chip Simpson (1) (235) [4]
5. Bob Shoudt (215) [8]
6. Sonya Thomas (205) [6]
7. Rich LeFevre (196) [7]
8. Tim Janus (181) [5]
9. Crazy Legs Conti (164) [11]
10. (tie) Erik Denmark (153) [10]
10. (tie) Juliet Lee (153) [12]

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(From JapanProbe) Mainichi Daily News reports that Mexicans of Japanese descent created a giant sushi roll to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants to Mexico in 1897. The roll was 110 meters long to represent the number of years that have passed since that event. The roll included edible cacti.

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A press release for Monday’s Trip Rewards hot wing eating contest lists the expected entrants:

Competing for the TripRewards Ultimate Hot Wing Eating Championship title will be IFOCE eaters Joey “Jaws” Chestnut of San Jose, Calif.; Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas of Alexandria, Va.; Tim “Eater X” Janus of New York, “Crazy Legs” Conti of New York, Micah “Wing Kong” Collins of Drexel Hill, Pa.; Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston of Drexel Hill; and Pete Miernicki, a rookie eater from Philadelphia. Bob “Humble” Shoudt of Royersford, Pa., and “Wild” Bill Myers of Brenigsville, Pa., will be “waiting in the wings” as alternates.

Kenan Thompson of Saturday Night Live will host. The contest will be webcast on Monday at 1pm eastern at http://www.triprewardshotwingchampionship.com/

update The blog for the the Minneapolis paper has an entry about the contest with a lot of comments.

The first commenter has the following response to the question “Why does competitive eating need its own international federation?”:

I don’t know. I guess they need a union to fight the evil promoters.

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The Des Moines Register has an article about the Jewish Food Festival which will feature the following event:

The festival will also hold its second matzo ball eating competition.

Last year, local challengers set out to break a New York City record of 21 baseball-sized matzo balls in five minutes, 25 seconds.

The local attempt fell five short, Goldstien said.

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Three trailers for the Wing Bowl documentary “Swallow Your Pride”, all about two minutes long can be viewed at http://www.joshcamerote.com/work.html

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R Suzuki reports that Nobuyki “The Giant” Shirota competed against a lion in on “Dream Vision”. The competitors had to eat 5 kg of meat as quickly as possible. Hopefully clips from the contest will appear on youtube soon.

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The Wall Street Journal has an article about the all you can eat section at Dodger Stadium claiming that the average hot dog consumption in that area is 2.5 hot dogs / person. The section has sold out 8 of 18 games this season. Two Philadelphia teams are considering adding all you can eat sections.

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Liz has an interview with Pat Bertoletti on truefan at http://www.urbanhonking.com/truefan/archives/2007/05/raising_the_bar.html

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Some observations on the current IFOCE points standings are below. More analysis might be done this weekend if time and desire are present.

No points were awarded for the Wing Bowl or St. Pat’s Chowdown

Nathan’s qualifiers and the Broadway at the Beach contest are 25 point events. All other contests are 50 point events.

The 2nd and 3rd place finishers in the Sunrise qualifier, James Saliba and John Boehnker are not listed.

Justin Mih should have more than one point. (His corn contest points were apparently not added)

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In a recent blog entry about his appearance in the Japanese edition of Iron Man magazine (he might appear in the US edition as well) and a bodybuilding DVD featuring Ronny Coleman, Kobayashi has a picture of his supplement container filled with 36 kinds of nutritional aids. Glutamine, BCAA, and creatine are three of the supplements Kobayashi uses. He says his supplement consumption increases when he is preparing for an eating contest.

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Josh Camerote, director of the Wing Bowl 13 documentary, “Swallow Your Pride” has set up a website and blog at http://www.joshcamerote.com/home.html The blog announces that a viewing of “Swallow Your Pride” has been scheduled for May 31 in Cleveland, but details have not been finalized yet.

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LATimes.com reports that talk radio hosts Opie & Anthony have been suspended from XM satellite radio for 30 days:

The hosts of “The Opie & Anthony Show” had apologized last Friday for airing a homeless man’s crude comments about wanting to have sex with First Lady Laura Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Queen Elizabeth II. But on Monday’s program, they sounded less contrite, complaining of having to adhere to their employer’s “dumb rules” and expressing sympathy for Don Imus and several other radio hosts who they said had recently lost jobs “just for trying to entertain people.”

An audio clip of the segment responsible for the suspension is available.

IFOCE competitor Pat Philbin is a frequent guest on the Opie & Anthony show and was temporarily suspended from IFOCE for appearing in a controversial video recorded at the Opie & Anthony studios.

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The new poll asks what you think the smallest winning amount will be in a Nathan’s qualifier held this year.

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(Thanks Erik Denmark) A press release reports that La Costena will hold a series of 9 one minute jalapeno eating contests this summer. The first place prize for each contest is $500. Contests will take in Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta and Chicago,

Erik also has a report from the BerryHill tamale contest on his blog.

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TokyoGraph reports that Asami Abe will replace Nozomi Tsuji in Natsuko “Gal” Sone’s group, Gyaruru. Their single will be released as originally planned on June 20, but will be rerecorded to include Abe’s voice.

Translated SanSpo article

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